Jewelry and method of producing same.



No. 735,891. PATENTED AUG. 11, 1903,.

W. A. MALLIET. JEWELRY AND'METHOD 0F PRODUCING SAME.-

APPLICATION FILED APR. 20. 1903.

NO MODEL.

HE Mom-us PEYEHS 00., PHOTILLIYNO, WASHING UNITED STATES Patented August 11 1903.

PATENT" OFFIC \VILLIAM A. MALLIET, OF HAOKENSACK, NEW JERSEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,891, dated August 11, 1903.

Application filed April 20, 1903. Serial No. 153,358. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. MALLIET, a citizen of the United States, residingin Hackensack, county of Bergen, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Jewelry and Methods of Producing Same, of which the following is a description.

This invention relates to jewelry, and more particularly to an ornamental button or medallion which may be used for various arti cles of jewelry-such, for example, as watchfobs,hat-pins,scarf-pins,cuff-buttons, breast-v pins, dsc.

This invention also relates to the art or process by which the button or medallion is produced.

It is an object of my invention to produce an ornamental button or medallion to which may be attached any form of fastening device and which may thus be converted into any desired article of jewelry.

With the above objects in view and others which will appear during the course of this description my invention consists in the art or process and in the parts, features, and combinations hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a face view of a disk, being a United States coin, with an aperture formed therein in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the disk, showing the same domed or concavo-convex. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the head or form.

Fig. 4 is an edge view of the head or form.'

ing the art or process, as follows: Primarily a disk 1 is providedwhich has an aperture 2 within its bOlClGIH, Preferably a coin of the suitable means.

able process.

currency of any country is used, and if a coin of the United States be employed the aperture is produced by cutting out in any suitable manner the head which appears on the face of the coin, and in so doing the outline of said head is substantially followed or conformed to. Next said disk is rendered convavo-convex, as shown at 3, Fig. 2, by any Next the material removed from the center of the disk is rendered pliable by any suitable process and has suitably combined therewith a metal either similar to or different from that of the metal of the disk. Thus combined and rendered pliable the metal is next shaped so as to produce a predetermined form 4such, for example, as the one illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, which is made in similitude of the head of the Goddess of Liberty and in three-quarter view, such conformation being effected by either molding, casting, or any other suit- Next the form thus produced is set within the aperture 2 in the disk 1, but in high relief from the latter, and there secured by any suitable means-such as soldering, brazing,welding, or otherwise. Next the diskl about the opening and adj acentthe head is scored, chased, or otherwise cut, as at 5, to present a jagged or ragged appearance and give the impression that the head has been forcibly broken or thrust through the disk.

Subsequently the entire product may be further rendered ornamental by oxidizing the Whole or a portion thereof, so as to give thereto the well-known French gray or other ornate effects. Beautiful contrasts can be made by burnishing, oxidizing, or otherwise ornamenting the disk and by gilding, enameling,

or otherwise producing a contrast between the disk and the form or head. The button or medallion thus produced can obviously be converted into various articles of jewelry and ornamentsuch as cud-buttons, Fig. 6,

tons by means of links 11, fixing a short chain 12 to the top button, and linking to said chain the usual watch-clip 13.

From the above description it will be clear that I have produced a highly ornamental button, medallion, or form which is convertible into many articles of jewelry, ornament, and wear; but it is to be distinctly understood that I do not intend to be limited to the precise steps which have been disclosed for producing the article nor to any particular article of jewelry.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The method of making an ornamental button including the following steps: producing upon a disk an alto-relievo form, and scoring the disk about the form to give the same an appearance creating the impression that the form has been forcibly thrust or broken through the disk.

2. The method of making an ornamental button including the following steps: producing upon a concave-convex disk a form in alto-relievo relation thereto, and scoring the disk about the form to give the same an appearance creating the impression that the form has been forcibly thrust or broken through the disk.

3. The method of making an ornamental button for jewelry, the same involving the following steps: forming an aperture in a disk; rendering the disk concavo-convex; producing an ornamental form; and securing said form to the disk within the opening so as to throw the same into alto-relievo upon the disk.

4, The method of making an ornamental button for jewelry, the same involving the following steps: forming an aperture in a disk; rendering the disk concavoconvex; producing an ornamental form; securin g said form to the disk within the opening so as to throw the same into alto-relievo upon the disk; and scoring the disk, about the form, so as to give the same a ragged appearance creating the impression that the form has been broken or thrust through the disk.

5. An article of jewelry comprising a disk, a form on the disk having an alto-relievo relation thereto, and said disk being chased, or otherwise scored, about the form to produce a ragged appearance giving the impression that the form has been forcibly thrust or broken through the disk.

6. An article of jewelry comprising a concavo-convex disk; a form on the disk having an alto-relievo relation thereto, said disk being chased, or otherwise scored, about the form to produce a ragged appearance; and suitable fastening means secured to the disk.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM A. MALLIET.

\Vitnesses:

LOUIS STEGKLER, CHAS. McO. CHAPMAN. 

